New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-13
WHAT A NETWORK TRAVELLER SAW.

THE WRECK PIED UP AS HIGH As A TELEGRAPH
POLE -CETIcIsING THE RAILROAD COMPANY.
CHICAGO Aug. Up. c. Church. commercial travel
Ter Newl ork hardware house. arrived from Peoria
this morning and related many incidents of the disaster
TO a group OF excited listeners at the sherman House
1--WE dldn hear about it until yesterday morning."
SAID he. and the irs report that several hundred
had been killed special train was at once made up
the OF the accident about sixty miles
distant A friend and myself thought we would take
run over but never expected to see what we aftei
ward did
AT Chatsworth there Of dead bodies
lying side by side upon the depot platform. piece OF
paper pinned the breast gave the name OF each one
The fret body We came TO was that OF a Chicago
drummer. whose | can't remember. but he was
running for large wholesale grocery house here We
had met him the day before, and afterward learned
that he the excursion train at little town above
Peoria intending time reaching another place
Chatsvorth But he To sleep, passing the
place where ne 10 get or not being awakened until
by the accident He was killed outright
"When We reached the place where the accident oc-
Cured the first thing we was pile OF mashed up
coaches high as a telegraph pole. The topof the
second chair car shot up top OF this standing like
monument least fifteen feet higher We arrived just
In time 20 Mr. Murphy, hoielkeeper from Gales
burg climb OF hole in the top Of the first char
which just In view upon pile OF broken timber at
the top OF the heap. He pulled out his WHO and baby
unlniurel, but almost exhausted, from having Deen
penned up for nearly twelve IL with great
difficulty they assisted to tue ground. Mr. Murphy
back into the hole ana brought ont alive lit
tie baby. lie had from the arms Of dead mother
After that he helped out aged woman. whose back
had been injured These i've persons, with two Others
were all that rescued from that car
" When the hotel keeper came down, asked MIN now
IL happened that he not killed lie replied that
when crash his wife sitting in seat
aud he and the baDy In the Just behind.
of the The baby Knocked OF the seat
he stopped pick her they shot Into the mass
~ ahead Just az that moment he said, timber
penetrated the car shooting across the place where nc
had been sitting and struck young woman who sat OPP
poslte In the neck. lie thus pinned down by The
timber which also protected him ron being smashed
saved his ife lie looked across tho aisle and saw
that tue young wOmaus head had fallen over on the
back OF her seat and hung only by tho skin. one
Young looking mother had held nor baby In her arms.
when timber, striking the child IN the BACK, impaed
both Tue mothers fIc0 iii not bear sratch Out the
a nression upon IL " III haunt me 10 the grave"
church said that the action OF the railroad ocias
after the accident condemned by almost ybody
Hundreds people got as far as Forest on their way 10
the wreck had walk the rest OF tho ance SIX
Officials rode aud down The Tracks, ana rev
going trains brought In the dead but the wounded
and diving left the ground with no relief except
that which partners in GRIEF could give them Ihey
Law IN the muddy fields all night, with tho rain beating
while hcir grOanS and cries went mp IN VAIN AS
fast as baggage could be taken from the cars no matter
whose II was torn OpBn, ant dresses ana sllrts
oppropr ated FOR bandages To dress the wounds % the
seriug After the physicians and nurses had left the
trunks thieves red them anda cried OF what was val
liable. 49,, a., -. ,.,
ii myself" said Mr. Church. "saw the head, shout
ders and arms OF young woman hanging from a car
window and a man went up and began stripping the
rings from her dead iugers some OF the passengers
interfered ard made him desist